Perpignan coaches head for Cape Town
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:54
Two Perpignan coaches, Franck Azéma and Bernard Goutta, are heading to Cape Town on Sunday to spend 10 days with Western Province.
They are not there to bounce up Table Mountain or even visit the vineyards, for they are on a rugby mission -= a mission to learn.
They want to see a different set-up and modus operandi but above all they want to find out about the experimental law variations. South Africans have been playing them, in various forms, for some time and are now playing them in the Currie Cup in the same form that will be universal from 1 August and therefore in France's Top 14.
Azéma said: "It's a chance to enrich ourselves, to exchange ideas from our respective ways of doing things.
"Basically the law changes will involve upheavals but not a revolution."
